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In 1913, with at least tacit agreement of the American ambassador in Mexico, a military coup removed Madero from government and he was then assassinated.

General Victoriano Huerta sought to reimpose a Diaz-type dictatorship supported by the large landowners, the army, and the foreign companies, but the tide of revolution could not be stopped so easily.

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Alvaro Obregon, an able general who had learned the new tactics of machine guns and trenches from the war raging in Europe and had beaten Villa's cavalry in a series of bloody battles in 1915, emerged as leader of the government.

As much as the Mexican Revolution had its own internal dynamic, it is interesting to note that it was roughly contemporaneous with revolutions in other agrarian societies which had also just undergone a period of rapid and disruptive modernization.

That nationalist sentiment played a role in each of these revolutions.

By 1920 the period of civil war was ended and Mexico began to consolidate the changes that had taken place in the previous confused and bloody decade. Obregon was elected president in that year, and he was then followed by a series of presidents from the new "revolutionary elite" who sought to consolidate the new regime.

Abolitionists in the United States, who had opposed the annexation of Texas as a slave state, claimed that the move to the Rio Grande was a hostile and aggressive act by Polk to provoke a war with Mexico to add new slave territory to the United States.

The Mexican muralist movement had a wide impact on artists throughout Latin America even though, as Orozco himself stated, it sometimes created simple solutions and strange utopias by mixing a romantic image of the Indian past with Christian symbols and Communist ideology.

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This has been a continuing problem in Latin America, where cities such as Lima, Montevideo, Quito, and Mexico City have so dominated the economic and political resources of their countries that growth outside the capital has been difficult.